For the first time since the Tsars a leader encouraged open debate about the country

The results were:

- less censorship

- A change in the view of Soviet history

Andrei Sakharov was freed from exile ( developed the hydrogen bomb in Russia)

Stalin was denounced

Gorbachev announced socialism still hadn't arrived

Glasnost and Perestroika were two controversial ideals brought from Mikhail Gorbachev. In both of these, he makes note of his plan to denounce Stalin; but also his dream of ultimately changing how thing were and how things are for the Soviet Union. Gorbachev started an open debate within the country from both Perestroika and Glasnost.